ESO Templar PvE Healer Build

Table of Contents

• Skills
• Rotation
• Gear
• Passives Skills
• Race
• Mundus Stone
• Champion Points
• Consumables
• Wrap Up

Last Updated: 2023-01-21

The ESO Templar PvE Healer Build has historically been a great choice if you are wanting to play as a healer. They have a class-specific skill line that is purely dedicated to providing powerful heals. Whether you are a newer player just starting out, or an experienced end-game trials healer, the templar will likely always be a great choice for healing.

Last updated January, 21st, 2023.  The sets should now have a variety of options for trials and dungeon healing.  Healer gear and skills are very group dependent.  You’ll want to start with whatever your healer is running in a trial or if solo, stick to basic sets like Spell Powered Cure.  Then focus on resource sustain for the group.  Finally add as many damage added sets to pump up your DPS.  Always try and coordinate with your team mates so you’re not running useless or unneeded sets.

Pros

• Easiest Healer
• No Aim Burst Heal
• Great Resources

Cons

• Less utility than Necromancer or Warden
• Lower Heals per Second

Video Guide

Skills

Front Bar: Restoration Staff

We use restoration staff for main healing abilities. Important note for resource management: Thanks to Cycle of Life passive your fully-charged Heavy Attacks with restoration staff restore 30% more Magicka. And because of Essence Drain passive, you gain Major Mending for 4 seconds after completing a fully-charged Heavy Attack, increasing your healing done by 16%.

Illustrious Healing (Morph of Grand Healing | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - Main AoE heal over time ability with a big radius. Keep this heal up, especially when stationary, also used to proc sets requiring a ground cast ability.

Energy Orb (Morph of Necrotic Orb | Skill line: Undaunted) - A great heal over time with burst heal synergy. It's a slow traveler but does everything for you as a healer. Keeps people's resources flowing via undaunted synergy passive, huge burst healing anyone can activate and massive heals over time. Only downside is it's not mobile and doesn't have great range.

Breath Of Life (Morph of Rushed Ceremony | Skill line: Restoring Light) - Incredibly powerful burst heal, one of the best in the game. Heals you or a wounded ally in front of you for a massive amount, and also heals one other injured target for less than the normal amount. The upside of breath is it requires no aiming, making it the easiest and friendliness heal in the game.

Combat Prayer (Morph of Blessings of Protection | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - Burst healing in a line that can also give two important buffs. Consider this a flex spot on your bar and you can swap something in and out. The uptime on Minor Berserk is really what you want on this skill hanging in the back to spray DPS dust on all your targets.

Radiating Regeneration (Morph of Regeneration | Skill line: Restoration Staff) - Great multi-targeting heal over time ability, especially for mobile encounters, also helps to proc specific healer sets. Spam ability to cover more targets if needed. This helps proc our gear sets along with decent healing in high mobility fights, plus you can pre-cast before going into a pull for HoTs.

Reviving Barrier (Morph of Barrier | Skill line: Support) - An ultimate that applies massive damage shields to group members, and those shielded also receive healing over time. Provides extra Magicka Recovery through Support skill line passive when slotting this ultimate ability. If a new player, consider slotting Remembrance from Templar's Restoring Light skill line. Another great option in high mobility fights is Life Giver which carries your healing for a brief time.

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Back Bar: Destruction Staff - Lightning Staff

The second very important healer's responsibility is to apply synergies, buffs and debuffs. Thanks to destruction staff passive Elemental Force you have double chances to apply the so-called: status effect. Also, certain 5-piece gear sets require a fully-charge heavy attack to proc extra effect e.g. Roaring Opportunist or Stone-Talker's Oath. Make sure to keep in your rotation a fully-charged heavy attack window to keep high uptime.

• Ice staff - used to support the group and to get Chilled status effect, which applies Minor Maim and Minor Brittle, reducing target’s damage done and increasing the critical damage done to the target. (primarily used by tanks because of its extra block mitigation and shield, but often healers)
• Inferno Staff - for extra damage and Burning status effect (DPS choice, also healers to add group damage)
• Lightning Staff - for higher AoE damage and to get Concussion status effect which applies Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing the enemies' damage taken, also can proc off balance. Easy to aim thanks to channelling. (mostly used by healers, good for beginners)

Channeled Focus (Morph of Rune Focus | Skill line: Restoring Light) - Great armor buff and sustain ability for yourself. Applies Major Resolve increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance. Restores Magicka every second ability is active, heals yourself while standing in area and also procs Sacred Ground passive in Restoring Light skill line, granting you Minor Mending increasing your healing done. If armor buff and sustain is not needed, swap it out for flex skill.

Extended Ritual (Morph of Cleansing Ritual | Skill line: Restoring Light) - Strong AoE healing ability that cleanses harmful effects from yourself and heals you and nearby allies in the area. Allies can activate a synergy that heals and cleanses all harmful effects from themselves. Also procs Sacred Ground passive in Restoring Light skill line, granting you Minor Mending while standing in the area, increasing your healing done.

Elemental Blockade (Morph of Wall of Elements | Skill line: Destruction Staff) - Ground cast AoE ability, primarily used to apply status effects that debuff and weapon enchant, making it ideal to use Lighting or Ice staff.

Overflowing Altar (Morph of Blood Altar | Skill line: Undaunted) - Altar in a trial is exceptional because the healing it provides during prolonged stationary fights. Moreover, added synergies means more resource sustain for your group. However, I do flex this ability in and out depending on the situation, gear set and mobility of the encounter. HIGH MOBILITY - I like the Luminous Shard skill to toss at the tank when I can't reach with orbs. GEAR SET - I run echoing vigor skill with Powerful Assault on the back bar.

Purifying Light (Morph of Backlash | Skill line: Dawns Wrath) - Mainly used for templar dawn's wrath passives and decent healing on target. Dawn's Wrath passive illuminate is unique and adds 10% spell damage for 20 seconds. You can use any skill line that you want, but keeping high uptime on this passive adds tons of DPS to your trials group or party.

Aggressive Horn (Morph of War Horn | Skill line: Assault) - One of the most important ultimate abilities for a support role. Grants Major Force increasing critical damage by 20%, also increases Max Magicka and Stamina by 10% for you and your group members. Prioritize use of this ultimate, it provides a huge damage boost to your group, coordinate with other support roles if possible to keep a high uptime.

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Rotation

Healing

he premise here is to roll as many heals over time as possible to keep high up time on spell power cure and or another set. Build in a heavy attack after each cycle to keep sustain high. Then switch to burst healing mode if anyone drops to 50% or lower. Priorities are as follows:

1. KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE
2. high heals per second
3. high up time on gear sets
4. burst up allies who dip below 50%
5. keep your resources high by heavy attacking in between rotation.

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Gear

Trials - option 1

This is one optimal trial healer setup (e.g. first healer)

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Symphony of Blades	Divines	Magicka
Chest	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Legs	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Gloves	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Jorvuld’s Guidance	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration staff	Perfected Grand Rejuvenation	Powered	Weapon/Spell Damage
Weapon Two	Frost > Fire > Lighting	Roaring Opportunist	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Roaring Opportunist	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Roaring Opportunist	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Roaring Opportunist	Arcane	Spell Damage

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This is one of the golden standard setups in trials because of the high Major Slayer. However, it’s hard to keep high uptime for new healers with constant fully charged heavy attacks so there will be flex options below.

Symphony of Blades = obtained in Depths of Malatar dungeon Wrathstone DLC

• Why? great resource sustain for the entire group

FLEX OPTIONS

• Sentinel of Rkugamz = great resource sustain
• Nightflame = good HPS
• Earthgore = AoE burst heal
• Chokethorn = single target burst heal
• Troll King= niche set for specific trials

Perfected Roaring Opportunist = obtained in Kyne’s Aegis trial Greymoor DLC

• WHY? the combination of RO/Jorv = enormous DPS for your entire group.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Stone-Talker’s Oath= great back bar sustain set
• Perfected Vestments of Olorime = longer lastly major courage though not mobile
• Z’en’s Redress = niche setup that adds tons of damage
• Powerful Assault: = great increase in overall DPS if running Echoing Vigor/Caltrops on the back bar
• Hollowfang Thirst= another sustain set that can be back bared
• Perfected Saxhleel Champion = great burst damage when combined with a barrier

Jorvuld’s Guidance = obtained in Scalecaller Peak dungeon Dragon Bones DLC

FLEX OPTIONS

• Spell Power Cure = major courage and it’s mobile
• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Way of Martial Knowledge = great overall DPS added set

Perfected Grand Rejuvenation = obtained in Veteran Dragonstar Arena

• WHY? the best all-around resource sustain 2pc weapon

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Timelss Blessing = good sustain option but you’ll need combat pray
• Force Overflow = good but you’ll need to use the skill force siphon
• Perfected Precise Regeneration = okay option if you lack anything to use

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Trials - option 2

This is one optimal trial healer setup (e.g. second healer)

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Magma Incarnate	Infused	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Spaulder of Ruin	Divines	Magicka
Chest	light	Spell Power Cure	Infused	Magicka
Legs	light	Spell Power Cure	Infused	Magicka
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration staff	Perfected Grand Rejuvenation	Powered	Weapon/Spell Damage
Weapon Two	Frost > Fire > Lighting	Powerful Assault	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Powerful Assault	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Powerful Assault	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Powerful Assault	Arcane	Spell Damage

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Spaulder of Ruin: obtained through ESO Mythics/antiquities system.

• Why? best two-piece damage added set for a dungeon HM team.

You need 5 items to be able to create the Mythic item. Location of the 5 pieces:

• Aureal Armor Glaze | Stonefalls | Shivering Shrine World boss
• Clannfear Leather Strapping |Deadlands | Clannfear mobs in any of the zones that exist in ESO
• Petrified Daedroth Horn | Deadlands | The Abomination Cradle world boss
• Void Alloy Lame Plates | Blackwood | Leyawiin safeboxes, Blackwood safeboxes
• Void Alloy Rivets |Deadlands |Drops from any Dremora-type monster in any of the zones in ESO

Magma Incarnate: obtained in Veteran Dread Cellar dungeon.

• WHY? use this 1pc for resource sustain primarily but can swap to more healing/crit if needed.

FLEX OPTIONS (swap to full 2pc monster helm)

• Symphony of Blades = S tier resource sustain
• Sentinel of Rkugamz = great resource sustain
• Nightflame = good HPS
• Earthgore = AoE burst heal
• Chokethorn = single target burst heal
• Troll King= niche set for specific trials

Spell Power Cure: obtained in white gold tower dungeon.

• WHY? Major courage adds tons of damage and this set is mobile.

FLEX OPTIONS on Body

• Perfected Vestments of Olorime = longer lastly major courage though not mobile
• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Sanctuary = easy to obtain increase to HPS
• Kagrenac’s Hope = craftable option for beginners
• Winter’s Respite= beginner overland set

Powerful Assault: obtained in Imperial Sewers, Imperial City DLC.

• WHY? incredible increase in overall DPS if running Echoing Vigor/Caltrops on the back bar

FLEX OPTIONS

• Master Architect:  burst damage in a short window when combined with Aggressive Warhorn
• Hollowfang Thirst= another sustain set that can be back bared
• Perfected Saxhleel Champion = great burst damage when combined with a barrier

Perfected Grand Rejuvenation = obtained in Veteran Dragonstar Arena

• WHY? the best all-around resource sustain 2pc weapon

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Timelss Blessing = good sustain option but you’ll need combat pray
• Force Overflow = good but you’ll need to use the skill force siphon
• Perfected Precise Regeneration = okay option if you lack anything to use

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Dungeons

This is meant for hard mode dungeons for huge DPS burst windows

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	medium	Magma Incarnate	Infused	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Spaulder of Ruin	Divines	Magicka
Chest	light	Spell Power Cure	Infused	Magicka
Legs	light	Spell Power Cure	Infused	Magicka
Gloves	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Spell Power Cure	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration staff	Perfected Grand Rejuvenation	Powered	Weapon/Spell Damage
Weapon Two	Frost > Fire > Lighting	Master's Architect	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Master's Architect	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 1		Master's Architect	Arcane	Spell Damage
Ring 2		Master's Architect	Arcane	Spell Damage

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Spaulder of Ruin: obtained through ESO Mythics/antiquities system.

• Why? best two-piece damage added set for a dungeon HM team.

You need 5 items to be able to create the Mythic item. Location of the 5 pieces:

• Aureal Armor Glaze | Stonefalls | Shivering Shrine World boss
• Clannfear Leather Strapping |Deadlands | Clannfear mobs in any of the zones that exist in ESO
• Petrified Daedroth Horn | Deadlands | The Abomination Cradle world boss
• Void Alloy Lame Plates | Blackwood | Leyawiin safeboxes, Blackwood safeboxes
• Void Alloy Rivets |Deadlands |Drops from any Dremora-type monster in any of the zones in ESO

Magma Incarnate: obtained in Veteran Dread Cellar dungeon.

• WHY? use this 1pc for resource sustain primarily but can swap to more healing/crit if needed.

FLEX OPTIONS (swap to full 2pc monster helm)

• Symphony of Blades = S tier resource sustain
• Sentinel of Rkugamz = great resource sustain
• Nightflame = good HPS
• Earthgore = AoE burst heal
• Chokethorn = single target burst heal
• Troll King= niche set for specific trials

Spell Power Cure: obtained in white gold tower dungeon.

• WHY? Major courage adds tons of damage and this set is mobile.

FLEX OPTIONS on Body

• Perfected Vestments of Olorime = longer lastly major courage though not mobile
• The Worm’s Raiment = good group sustain buff set
• Sanctuary = easy to obtain increase to HPS
• Kagrenac’s Hope = craftable option for beginners
• Winter’s Respite= beginner overland set

Master Architect: obtained in Halls of Fabrication trial Morrowind DLC.

• WHY? incredible burst damage in a short window when combined with Aggressive Warhorn

FLEX OPTIONS

• Powerful Assault: = great increase in overall DPS if running Echoing Vigor/Caltrops on the back bar
• Hollowfang Thirst= another sustain set that can be back bared
• Perfected Saxhleel Champion = great burst damage when combined with a barrier

Perfected Grand Rejuvenation = obtained in Veteran Dragonstar Arena

• WHY? the best all-around resource sustain 2pc weapon

FLEX OPTIONS

• Perfected Timelss Blessing = good sustain option but you’ll need combat pray
• Force Overflow = good but you’ll need to use the skill force siphon
• Perfected Precise Regeneration = okay option if you lack anything to use

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Beginner

This setup is great for beginners who do not have access to trials gear

Slot	Type	Set	Trait	Glyph
Head	light	Winter's Respite	Infused	Magicka
Shoulders	light	Winter's Respite	Divines	Magicka
Chest	heavy	Armor of the Seducer	Infused	Magicka
Legs	medium	Armor of the Seducer	Infused	Magicka
Gloves	light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Boots	light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Belt	light	Armor of the Seducer	Divines	Magicka
Weapon One	Restoration staff	Willpower	Powered	Absorb Magicka
Weapon Two	Lightning Staff	Willpower	Charged	Shock
Necklace		Winter's Respite	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 1		Winter's Respite	Arcane	Magicka Recovery
Ring 2		Winter's Respite	Arcane	Magicka Recovery

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Winter’s Respite: Overland set obtained in Western Skyrim or purchased from guild traders.

• WHY? Winter’s Respite is an excellent choice for healers just starting out. When you cast a ground-based ability like Grand Healing, which is one of the first skills you unlock, it adds a ton of extra healing with the 5 piece bonus being applied. This set is very easy to obtain, if you don’t have the DLC it can be purchased from guild traders for a very cheap price.

Armor of the Seducer: Craftable set in Stormhaven, Grahtwood, and Deshaan.

• WHY? Armor of the Seducer will help keep you healing through encounters. This set offers great Magicka sustain with plenty of Magicka Recovery and cost reduction on Magicka abilities. Newer or inexperienced healers tend to have issues with Magicka sustain making this another good choice.

Willpower: Obtained in Imperial City, dungeon finder rewards, or purchased from guild traders.

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Armor of the Trainee: Overland set obtained in starter zones like Stros M’Kai, Khenarthi’s Roost, Bleakrock Isle, Betnikh and Bal Foyen, or purchased from guild traders.

WHY? Willpower gives a great boost to Max Magicka and makes for a good 2 piece set. Whereas Trainee gives great stat bonuses to Max Health and Max Magicka.

FLEX OPTIONS

• Heartland Conqueror: Craftable- Blackwood.
• Law of Julianos: Craftable- Wrothgar, Boreal Forge.
• Kagrenac’s Hope: Craftable- The Earth Forge “location varies based on alliance”.
• Wisdom of Vanus: Overland- Summerset.

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Passives

Class Passives

Weapon Passives

Armor Passives

Guild Passives

Alliance Passives

World Passives

Make sure to focus on maxing out the following passives skills as they add performance to your character

• Class passives
• Weapon passives
• Armor passives
• Fighter’s Guild (optional)
• Mage’s Guild (optional)
• Undaunted (must have)
• Psijic Guild (optional)
• Crafting Alchemy (Medicinal Use for potion duration)
• Race
• Assault Alliance passives
• Alliance Support passives
• Vampire (if using)
• Werewolf (if using)

Races

Breton

Insane sustainability lacks spell damage or increased healing.

• Opportunist
• Gift of Magnus
• Spell of Attunement
• Magicka Mastery

Argonian

Great for pure healing and survival, lacks sustain and has less Max Magicka.

• Amphibian
• Life Mender
• Argonian Resistance
• Resourceful

Attributes

Mundus Stone

Atronach - Increases Magicka recovery by 310. With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Magicka recovery by 507 (Well-rounded choice for all setups)

Ritual - Increases healing effectiveness by 8 %. With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases healing effectiveness by 13% (Stronger healing if sustain isn’t needed)

Mage - Increases Maximum Magicka by 2023 With 7 Divines armor pieces: Increases Maximum Magicka by 3309 (Great if you are using Roaring Opportunist/Jorvuld’s sets for a trial group healer)

Champion Points

Warfare

Soothing Tide (Slottable) - 50
Increases your Healing Done by area of effect heals by 2% per stage.

Swift Renewal (Slottable) - 50
Increases your Healing Done with healing over time effects by 2% per stage.

Rejuvenator (Slottable) - 50
Grants 41 Weapon and Spell Damage to your healing abilities per stage.

Enlivening Overflow (Slottable) - 50
Overhealing yourself or an ally grants them Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery equal to .5% of your Max Magicka, up to a cap of 150, for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds per target.

Flex Spot(s): If you can afford, take these passives as they add power without a slottable: Precision (20), Piercing (20), Eldritch Insight (20), Flawless Ritual (40), War Mage (30), Quick Recovery (20), Preparation (20), Elemental Aegis (20), Hardy (20), Blessed (20), Tireless Discipline (20), Battle Mastery (40), & Mighty (30)

Fitness

Boundless Vitality (Slottable) - 50
Grants 28 Max Health per stage.

Fortified (Slottable) - 50
Grants 34.6 Armor per stage.

Spirit Mastery (Slottable) - 50
Decreases the time it takes to resurrect an ally by 33%.

Rejuvenation (Slottable) - 50
Grants 1.8 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery per stage.

Flex Spot(s): If you can afford, take these passives as they add power without a slottable: Tumbling (30), Mystic Tenacity (10), Hero’s Vigor (20), Shield Master (10), Defiance (20), Hasty (16), Tireless Guardian (20), Fortification (30), Sprinter (20), Nimble Protector (6), Savage Defense (30), Bashing Brutality (20), & Piercing Gaze (30)  

Crafting

Treasure Hunter (Slottable) - 50
Increase the quality of items you find in treasure chests.

Liquid Efficiency (Slottable) - 50
Whenever you use a potion or poison you have a 10% chance to not consume it.

Rationer (Passives) - 50
Adds 10 minutes to the duration of any food or drink that increases your character's stats per stage.

Steed's Blessing (Slottable) - 50
Increases your out of combat Movement Speed by .4% per stage.

Flex Spot(s): If you can afford, take these passives as they add power without a slottable: Breakfall (50), Wanderer (75), Steadfast Enchantment (50), Fortune’s Favor (40), Gilded Fingers (50), & Inspiration Boost (45)

Consumables

Ghastly Eye Bowl

Type: Foods

GOOD HEALING (Use if you're good with mechanics and sacrifice less health): Increase Max Magicka by 4256 and Magicka Recovery by 425 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Bananas (1), Fleshfly Larvae (1), Rose (1), Saltwater Bait (1), Worms (1)

Bewitched Sugar Skulls

Type: Foods

GOOD MAX STATS: Increase Max Health by 4620, Max Stamina and Max Magicka by 4250, and Health Recovery by 462 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Scrib Jelly (2), Flour (5), Columbine (2), Bervez Juice (2), Honey (5)

Clockwork Citrus Filet

Type: Foods

EXPENSIVE (A great option if you can afford it): Increase Max Health by 3724, Health Recovery by 351, Max Magicka by 3458 and Magicka Recovery by 319 for 2 hours. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Red Meat (1), Lemon (1), Frost Mirriam (1), Perfect Roe (1)

Essence of Spell Power or *Alliance Spell Draught

Type: Potions

Restore 7582 Magicka immediately. Grants you Major Intellect which increases your Magicka Recovery by 30% for 36.6 seconds. Grants Major Sorcery which increases your Spell Damage by 20% for 36.6 seconds. Grants Major Prophecy which gives you 2629 Spell Critical Rating for 36.6 seconds. (effects are scaled based on your level) Ingredients: Lady’s Smock, Corn Flower, Namira’s Rot or Water Hyacinth

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